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Reduce Size of Git Repository

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Use Git Large File Storage to Manage Large Files

Git Large File Storage (Git-LFS) is the recommended way to work with large files. Please read the following if have already committed large files into your repository.

git-filter-repo

git-filter-repo is currently the best and the recommended tool by the Git project for rewriting history of Git repositories. .

git gc + git repack

git gc --prune=now --aggressive
git repack

Git is really slow for 100,000 objects. Any fixes?

Why is my git repository so big?

Other Ways

git push --force


$ git gc --prune=now --aggressive

git filter-branch --prune-empty -d /dev/shm/scratch \
  --index-filter "git rm --cached -f --ignore-unmatch oops.iso" \
  --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
$ git reflog expire --expire=now --all
git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -f DVD-rip' HEAD

git filter-branch --force --index-filter 'git rm --cached -r --ignore-unmatch oops.iso' --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
rm -rf .git/refs/original/
git reflog expire --expire=now --all
git gc --prune=now
git gc --aggressive --prune=now

git checkout --orphan temp $1 # create a new branch without parent history
git commit -m "Truncated history" # create a first commit on this branch
git rebase --onto temp $1 master # now rebase the part of master branch that we want to keep onto this branch
git branch -D temp # delete the temp branch

The following 2 commands are optional - they keep your git repo in good shape.

git prune --progress # delete all the objects w/o references
git gc --aggressive # aggressively collect garbage; may take a lot of time on large repos

Or another way is just to remove the .git directory, reinitial a git repository and push to remote with the --force option.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2100907/how-to-remove-delete-a-large-file-from-commit-history-in-git-repository

http://blog.gbacon.com/2009/08/git-shrinking-subversion-import.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2116778/reduce-git-repository-size

shallow clone using the depth option

git clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git ~/wine-git --depth 1

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